The Owen Sound Attack added to their depth between the pipes on Friday trading a conditional seventh-round pick in 2020 to the Oshawa Generals for goaltender Nathan Torchia.

Attack General Manager Dale DeGray expects Torchia to compete for a spot on the big club with overage goalie Olivier Lafreniere.

“My thought is he’s going to be able to come in and push to play with Mack Guzda,” DeGray said by telephone Friday.

Torchia, 18, split time last season between the Georgetown Raiders and Stouffville Spirit of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. He became part of a stout Tier II net tandem with former Erie Otters goaltender, and Memorial Cup finalist, Troy Timpano down the stretch last year with the Raiders.

After posting a 1.46 goals-against-average and .951 save percentage in the regular season for the Raiders, following a trade from the struggling Spirit on Dec. 1, Torchia played three games in the playoffs where he posted a 3.40 goals-against-average and .897 save percentage.

“He would probably be one of the top goalies that’s not in our league who could be ready for our league,” said DeGray.

The Raiders fell to the Wellington Dukes in the OJHL final.

Torchia is listed at five-foot-ten, but DeGray points to former Attack goaltender Brandon Hope as a recent example of tiny tenders having success in the Owen Sound goal.

“Who cares, if he can play he can play,” said DeGray. “Outside of him being six-foot-two, or four, everything else he hits the mark for us.”

The Waterloo native was the Generals’ fourth-round selection in the 2016 OHL Priority Selection out of the Waterloo Wolves AAA minor midget program.

He got into one game as a member of the Generals in a relief effort during the 2017-18 season and 36 minutes making nine saves on 11 shots.

The condition attached the to seventh-round pick is performance-based and could improve to a fourth-round selection.

If the last name sounds familiar to Canadian Hockey League goaltending fans that’s because his father Mike was named the 1990 Memorial Cup’s Most Outstanding Goaltender while with the Kitchener Rangers and won the Ontario Hockey League Goaltender of the Year award the following season. He was later drafted by the Minnesota North Stars, and suited up when the team moved to Dallas for six games before a lengthy minor-league career.